All the fault of Big Alcohol and the supermarkets

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So Professor Sellman says it is all the fault of Big Alcohol who have been brainwashing Aaron since he was 15 years old to buy alcohol. This is the fault also of the supermarkets for placing alcohol next to the fruit and veges.

Comments (39)

Manolo

RRM

The poor man is nothing but a victim of the demon drink…

One bottle of wine twisted his arm, while a second whispered saccharine words of seduction in his ear; a third bottle of wine stroked his inner thigh suggestively, while a fourth bottle of wine tipped itself down his unwilling throat.

tvb

Gilmour is well past the age to be having issues with alcohol. And to apologise for behaviour he should know is being a prat suggests a great deal of immaturity. If he had not grown up by 40 he never will.

Dennis Horne

Anyone who thinks we don’t have a problem with mind-altering substances is out of his mind.

I have no idea what the answer is; Hell, I don’t know what the problem is. Something to do with the pain of being here and alive with no apparent purpose, I suspect.

People have to work and struggle to give meaning to their lives. That’s the tragedy of the welfare state. We should help people only when they’re desperate, not just lazy. And the help should be conditional, not some imaginary “god-given” right.

Sidey

Alcohol is like a magnifying glass. For instance, I like to think I’m a reasonably funny guy. After one drink, I become “t” times funnier. Two drinks = funny x t x t. So it could be written as my funniness = F^txn using F= funny baseline (I stand to be corrected on my math, as no doubt many will do…).

For the unfortunate Mr Gilmore, substitute “funny” with “plonkerishness” to get P^txn. Assign a baseline plonker value for t and multiply by the number of drinks consumed to obtain plonker value.

David Garrett

tvb: Gilmore “well past the age to be having issues with alcohol”? Excuse me? Ever seen the derros in any major city? While some of them look older than Keith Richards, a good few of them actually are…Last time I went to a meeting there were all ages represented…No, I decided after a while I actually wasn’t one, but I am certainly better off without it… I have a good ten years on Gilmore and it took me until recently to finally decide that…

hane

hane

As for Gilmore, he is a victim of New Zealand’s draconian liquor laws, which threaten bars with closure and bartenders with 2K fines if they serve “intoxicated” individuals. Thus in NZ waiters, etc, are forced to be policeman. If I am a bit pissed in a bar and the barman wants to serve me, what business is that of the govt?

You know, there’s not many people who don’t struggle with something. There are people who suffer and then there are sanctimonious shits. I’ve been to enough 12 step meetings a) have earned the right to be a wine drinking atheist until the second coming and b) to know that the best way to avoid problematic drinking is not to start. Failing that, early nights and a good constitution ward off much of the ill effects of pissheadery

Exactly- because what other business in new Zealand has the police to sort out their shit ?- the business has keep on selling piss, has trouble in said business and then wants to step back and says – please Mr Rozzer sort this out for me. … sorry business, fuck off

Red

What claptrap. I’m in Invercargill where we have a licencing trust to dollop out the grog… which means exactly zero dairy or supermarket sales. None. Does it mean no drunken dickheads? Unfortunately not – but we do have a fair smattering of Cantabrians who visit from time to time … 😉

Yvette

So I guess Aaron Gilmore’s next rumoured indiscretions [Whaleoil, NBR] will be credited to the actual supermarket vege department – telegraph cucumber, carrots, parsnips or – stripped of Gilmore self engrandisment – those little Californian courgettes. On a telephone screen, they’ll actually look bigger than they really are.
Or it may just be the who Pak N Save stickman thing.

MT_Tinman

chuk

Has anyone noticed the coincidence here?

If you change a few of the letters in “Aaron Gilmore” you can generate an anagram of “I am a tosser” and if you change a few of the letters in “Doug Sellman” you can generate an anagram of ………….. “I am a tosser”.

Lloyd

mara

Alcohol doesn’t make your character; it just reveals it. Generally. Some people don’t need the piss to be an open book and Gilmore is one of them. Professor Sellman (call me Doug) is probably too highly educated in correct speech to have been sardonic in his letter. Get a grip Douggie mate.

dime

UpandComer

alcohol doesn’t make your character, it just reveals it? bullshit. Alcohol changes people Mara. I actually feel for Aaron Gilmore. Like Darren Hughes shit has hit the fan in about 5 secs for him. Everyone has embarrassed themselves drinking alcohol, and I don’t actually think he deserved to be hung out to dry the way he has, although he should have handled it much better.

I think he bought far too much into the whole ‘work hard play hard’ pseudo alpha male affectation that afflicts so many young guys and indeed gals who are on that suit set. Same shit with Darren Hughes, albeit his hardness was of a different nature. What I’m interested in is his claim he made a few million as a director of some companies. Not sure how he pulled that off.

Left Right and Centre

My local pak n save… piss and fruit and veg opposite corners of same side of shop… nowhere near each other. Most supermarkets I know of are the same/ similar. That’s in Wellington.

I find it unfortunate that supermarkets can only entice shoppers by leading with ‘beer week’ and ‘wine sale’. And then of course the specials are always shit like lollies/ chippies/ biscuits/ soft drink. Shit in other words. Shit sells. More than anything else.

I’ll be looking at the sheer volume of alcohol on the shelves…. holy fuck, really? Who’s buying that amount of piss? You see recycling bins… and I’ve driven rubbish trucks for a short time… fuckin oath… some places were pointed out to me as being week after week of 100s of glass bottles.